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Articlenpj computational materials2025

Scalable machine learning approach to light induced order disorder phase transitions with ab initio accuracy.

Andrea Corradini, Giovanni Marini, Matteo Calandra

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Article in npj computational materials, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Andrea CorradiniDepartment of Physics, University of Trento, Povo, Italy.
Giovanni MariniDepartment of Physics, University of Trento, Povo, Italy.
Matteo CalandraDepartment of Physics, University of Trento, Povo, Italy.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While machine learning excels in simulating material thermal properties, its application to order-disorder non-thermal phase transitions induced by visible light has been limited by challenges in accurately describing potential energy surfaces, forces, and vibrational properties in the presence of a photoexcited electron-hole plasma. Here, we present a novel approach that combines constrained density functional theory with machine learning, yielding highly reliable interatomic potentials capable of capturing electron-hole plasma effects on structural properties. Applied to photoexcited silicon, our potential accurately reproduces the phonon dispersion of the crystal phase and allows for molecular dynamics simulations of tens of thousands of atoms. We show that, at low enough temperatures, the non-thermal melting transition is driven by a soft phonon and the formation of a double-well potential, at odds with thermal melting being strictly first order. Our method paves the way to large-scale, long-time simulations of light-induced order-disorder phase transitions with ab initio accuracy.

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Electronic structurePhase transitions and critical phenomenaSemiconductorsStructure of solids and liquids

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PMID40438619
PMCPMC12106065

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